I’m trying to regain access to an old Gmail account that I haven’t used in quite some time. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the original device I used with this account, and I cannot remember my last password. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: I still have access […]

My laptop has an ssd with WIndows installed. I need two separate installations of Windows on the same computer, and I want to avoid starting from scratch. I’ve cloned drives with Macrium many times, but always 1 to 1, never like this. Basically I want to split the new SSD […]

what makes the windows 10 Local user administrator different from windows built-in administrator? Windows 10 Pro on SSD.

I’m preparing to clean-install Windows 11 Pro using a USB drive created with Rufus. After preparing the USB, I noticed that Windows displayed two separate drives in File Explorer: the main Windows installation partition and a smaller partition labeled RUFUS_BOOT, each with its own drive letter. What confused me is […]

I’m trying to run an old application called Archive CS5 (version 2.0.0.10) on Windows 11 64-bit. When launching the application, I receive the following error: Class not registered. Looking for object with CLSID: {00000010-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4} Based on my research, this CLSID appears to be associated with Microsoft DAO 3.5. Here is […]

Excel appears to be using cached data in linked cells from a worksheet which no-longer exists, is there some way to stop this from happening? ='C:...[Nov.xlsx]Sheet1'!A1 No matter how many times I recalculate the spreadsheet this cell continues to display data from the now deleted `Nov.xlsx` workbook. I have tried […]

I have question about recovering data from DuckDuckGo internal folder (no sync backup possible) but frankly I am not sure about what I am asking about is even possible. Anyway, here we go. I had system crash and unfortunately due to my wrong backup settings and my mistake, I can’t […]

I am trying to configure GnuPG on windows. Everything works in PowerShell. I have set a environmental variable via the following command setx GNUPGHOME %APPDATA%gnupg which essentially writes to registry HKCUEnvironmentGNUPGHOME. This part is OK. Whenever I try to configure GnuPG in MSYS64, I run into problem. MSYS64 complains about […]

I have a need to duplicate an S3 bucket being used by a particular application. I hold to no assumptions regarding the details of the application’s usage of the various features of S3. My precise objective is that the new bucket may provide a seamless replacement for the existing, allowing […]